Day 18 (Sat., June 25)

Ahhhhh. Today was hard waking up. I had a stomach ache and I was sleepy. Despite that, I was able to get up and go shoot professional golf. The San Angelo Country Club held its partnership tournament this week and today was a big day for the tournament.

Remember a few days ago (Day 13, June 20) when I went shoot at Blair's Western Wear store? Remember how I kept on saying that the National Association of Hispanic Journalists internship got me ready for that event. Well, as you might remember from Day 4 of the NAHJ internship, when I shot the first-ever NAHJ Golf Tournament. That got me ready for today's assignment. I am beginning to see that the NAHJ internship not only introduced me to some really cool friends, but I learned key things that will help me in the future.

I took the same approach in shooting golf today. I wanted to get up close and personal with the players and get a nice celebration photo. Here it is, I think I did a good job. It's very similar to the one I shot in Fort Worth last week, but this one came through a lot easier. I didn't have trouble in finding the shot and making it happen.

The cool thing about internships is that I get to learn on the go. I learned something valuable today. Well, let me rephrase that. I got reassured on something valuable today. My other assignment of the day was to go shoot a photo at the Pottery Ranch. We are working on a story on "crafty" places where kids can have their birthday parties and learn a little. The party at the place was the only one we could find in the area for this weekend. So, I couldn't mess this up.

However, I never got a chance to shoot a single frame at the party. Turns out the party was for the daughter of the Standard-Times' Managing Editor Anthony Wilson. As soon as I saw him at the location, I knew my day was going to be short. Ethically, I was not going to shoot a photo about one of our employees enjoying a service for the purpose of telling the story. That's a huge no-no. Mr. Wilson, who is actually the person who contacted me and offered me the internship two weeks before I started here, told me that he was sorry and I turned away and went back to the office. Oh well. I guess it's cool to see that we were all on the same page as far as ethics are concerned. I am glad to see my boss so direct on something like this.

So, with the rest of the day free. I decided to go home and work on some things like cleaning the house. Later this evening I went to the river walk to hang out there. It was cool walking by the water and relaxing as the warm night covered the river. I was out there a few weeks ago when I first showed up. But I went during the week and there was no one around. Today, there was a lot of people fishing and hanging out. It gave life to this cool place.

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